Nancy Mace says Lindsay Clancy 'should be dead too', calls for public execution: Report

WASHINGTON, DC: Rep Nancy Mace (R-SC) called for the “public execution” of Lindsay Clancy during a Monday, September 14, interview with TMZ DC, saying the Massachusetts mother should receive the death penalty after being charged with killing her three children.

Mace also slammed Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, for asking President Donald Trump to pardon his client, calling the request a “publicity stunt” and saying Trump could not pardon a state case.

Nancy Mace calls for Lindsay Clancy’s public execution

Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, admitted to killing her children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan, with exercise bands in the basement of her Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023.

Her attorneys argued that she was not criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder. 

Her murder trial ended in a mistrial on September 4 after six days of deliberations. The jury was deadlocked 11-1 in favor of acquittal.

Reddington later asked Trump to pardon Clancy. Trump declined, calling the case “very sad” but saying it was a “state situation.” 

Speaking to TMZ DC’s Jacob Wasserman about the request, Mace said Reddington knew that a federal pardon could not apply to a state case.

“It doesn’t take a lawyer, I’m not even a lawyer. I didn’t go to law school,” Mace said. “It doesn’t take a lawyer to figure that out.”

She then took her comments further. “Her children are dead. She should be dead too,” Mace said.

Nancy Mace doubles down on death penalty call

Wasserman asked Mace to clarify if she was saying Clancy should receive the death penalty. “She should get the death penalty,” Mace replied. “It should be public. It should be a public execution.”

The reporter then pressed her on what she meant by a public execution.

“Oh, absolutely,” Mace said. “She killed her kids. She deserves nothing less. Three kids are dead.”

When Wasserman asked whether she wanted to see Clancy receive the electric chair in front of a crowd, Mace again agreed.

“A hundred percent,” she said. “She’s a serial killer. She should get the electric chair. She should get the death penalty. It should be public. It should be a warning to women everywhere. You don’t kill your kids.”

Nancy Mace broadens call for public executions

Wasserman later told Mace that her comments were “a little out of bounds.”

Mace rejected that characterization and expanded her call for public executions beyond Clancy’s case. “No. Absolutely not. Child abusers too. Add them to the list of public executions, yes,” she said.